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WITHDRAWN 06/13/2014 Greenwich Village Historic District Between West 4th Street and Greenwich Avenue —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: Two buildings designed by A.B. Ogden and Son…
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APPROVED on 05/21/2013 Greenwich Village Historic District Between West 4th Street and Greenwich Avenue —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A Greek Revival style rowhouse built in…
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APPROVED 06/15/2010 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Greenwich Avenue & West 4th Street Application: A stable building built in 1870. Application is to paint the facade and install a display…
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APPROVED on 12/15/2009 Greenwich Village Historic District Between West 4th Street & Greenwich Avenue Application: A Romanesque-Revival style stable designed by Charles H. Demarest and constructed in 1868. Application is…
Read MoreVillage Preservation Historic Plaques Honor Trailblazing Women in our Neighborhoods
…an obvious reminder that a site is historically significant. Jane Jacobs Jane Jacobs photograph courtesy of the Estate of Fred W. McDarrah The activist and writer Jane Jacobs was instrumental…
Read MoreFred W. McDarrah’s Greenwich Village and the East Village of the 1950s and 60s
…fortunate enough to add to its digital archive a dozen of the most epochal of Fred McDarrah’s images of downtown icons, including Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Jane Jacobs, and Allen Ginsberg. And just…
Read MoreOral History: Claire Tankel
…you knew it was safe. You knew it was safe. Jane [Jacobs] described it best when she said, ‘The eyes of the community were watching.’ We even felt it here….
Read More2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs
…seminars and workshops on subjects of interest to members, and readings of members’ works. Developing an Opera about Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses Composer Judd Greenstein and director Joshua Frankel…
Read More13 places in Greenwich Village where the course of history was changed
…only Democrat elected to the White House between 1860 and 1912. 6. The great urban paradigm shift: Jane Jacobs In post-World War II America (and indeed much of the industrialized…
Read MoreThings We’re Looking Forward To Doing Again
…February 3, 1964. (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Jane Jacobs Jane Jacobs at protest outside P.S. 41, 116 West 11th Street, February 3, 1964. Photo by…
Read MorePreservation for the Future — Join Us Tomorrow Night
…Future City credits Jane Jacobs’ work in the Village as creating our road map for the last half-century of preservation. Jacobs’ work gave us a language to discuss how and why historic…
Read MoreThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is a Visual Ode to the Village
…a rally in Washington Square Park organized by none other than Jane Jacobs, (that Jane Jacobs was the organizer for this rally is not exactly historically accurate, but we’ll let…
Read MoreVILLAGE VOICES
…Cunningham John W. Draper Bob Dylan Martha Graham Lorraine Hansberry Billie Holiday Edward Hopper Jane Jacobs Larry Kramer Helen Levitt Edna St. Vincent Millay Joan Mitchell Joe Papp Charlie Parker…
Read MoreAda Louise Huxtable: Democratizing Architectural Discourse in Greenwich Village and Beyond
…architectural journalist, Jane Jacobs, author of the new, acutely perceptive, but highly controversial book, The Life and Death of Great American Cities. Mrs. Jacobs and her Committee fought the City…
Read MoreRemembering the Demolition of Penn Station 60 Years Later — What Have We Learned?
…planners, and concerned New Yorkers of all stripes like Village Preservation Board of Advisors member Jane Jacobs. While Jane and other foresighted citizens were ultimately unsuccessful in saving the monumental…
Read MoreThe High Line is Dismantled and the West Side is Transformed
…l.: 165 Christopher Street (1961); the Jane Jacobs-inspired West Village Houses; 99 Jane Street, one of the new buildings which replaced the last section of the High Line to be…
Read MoreRare photos of the High Line being demolished in the 1960s tell the story of a changing West Village
…proposed replacing the entire area with high-rise towers surrounded by open space. The neighborhood, including Jane Jacobs who lived in the “blighted” area, rose up and eventually defeated Moses’ urban…
Read More(Street) Signs of the Times
Jane Jacobs Way being unveiled in 2009. If you haven’t already read it, the Times reported last week on the recent completion of a catalog of New York City’s ‘honorific’…
Read MoreRemembering A Village Icon: Otis Kidwell Burger
…publishing Kurt Vonnegut’s first short story. During her time there, she interacted with some of the Village’s most fascinating and notable figures. Jane Jacobs was one of her storied guests…
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…west side of Manhattan. And began to bring energy right along the street and say, “We’re going to begin to address the water”, the water’s edge, and Jane Jacobs housing…
Read MoreA Treasure Trove of Preservation History!
…NoHo from the 1960s through the 1980s. A 1972 invitation by The West Village Committee Inc. for a reception in honor of Jane Jacobs This archive is divided into three…
Read MoreDelving into the Past & Future of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…— how did that come to be? Why wasn’t the district extended all the way west to the Hudson River, as Jane Jacobs wanted? With panelists: Andrew Berman, Executive Director…
Read MoreOther Celebrities Who Have “Haunted” The White Horse Tavern
…Activists and Other Notables Jane Jacobs Given its location on Hudson Street, it would have been more notable if Jane Jacobs did NOT go to the White Horse. The late…
Read MoreO Pioneers! Two Remarkable Women of Bank Street: Willa Cather and Lucy Sprague Mitchell
…quintessential Jane Jacobs Greenwich Village block, the quintessential urban street” (Jacobs herself lived just feet away from Bank Street, on Hudson between Perry and 10th). It is no wonder then…
Read MoreRemembering the former Pennsylvania Station
American writer Jane Jacobs (L) and architect Philip Johnson (R) stand with picketing crowds outside Penn Station to protest the building’s demolition, New York City. Placards read: ‘AGBANY is here’…
Read MoreHistoric Victory: Far West Village landmark districts unanimously approved!
…immediately Follows 2-year intensive campaign for landmark & zoning protections Comes more than 40 years after Jane Jacobs first pushed for landmarking of area History was made this morning when…
Read MoreCulture & Cuisine: Dishing Up the East Village Walking Tours Led by Dana Schulz
…included, but you’ll surely have some good dining ideas! Second tour date 05/24/2012. Jane Jacobs Walk is a program of the Center for the Living City, a nonprofit organization created…
Read MoreCharles Mingus Plaque Unveiling and Performance
…figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Alex Haley; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry. Register today to secure…
Read MoreThe Origins of Greenwich Village Historic District Street Names: Part 1
…have been (but was probably not) named for a woman named Jane (not Jacobs). There was a ‘Jane’ who was married to a Dutchman who reportedly named a path for…
Read MoreThings We’re Looking Forward To Doing Again
…Spot Café, 2 St. Marks Place. Photo by Fred W. McDarrah, used by permission. Go to a protest. Jane Jacobs at protest outside P.S. 41, 116 West 11th Street, February…
Read MoreIn Their Own Words: A Salute to the Women of the Greenwich Village Preservation Movement
…public, features interviews with many of the most influential women of the preservation movement, including Margot Gayle, Verna Small, and Jane Jacobs. Hear fascinating selections from their oral histories shedding…
Read MoreGVHD50 Panel: Landmark Expansions
GVHD50 Panel: Landmark Expansions at Church of the Village When Shirley Hayes, Verna Small, Jane Jacobs, Ruth Wittenberg, and other Village activists succeeded in getting the Greenwich Village Historic District…
Read MoreThe Origins of Greenwich Village Historic District Street Names: Part VI
…Jane Jacobs, who lived at 555 Hudson Street 555 Hudson Street, where Jane Jacobs once lived with her family Jefferson Market Garden The Jefferson Market Garden was named for the…
Read MorePeril & Promise: Exploring the Next Chapter of New York City with Village History
…moment, from former epidemics and outbreaks to moments of social unrest. Through the lens of Village visionaries like Jane Jacobs, Jason will offer his vision of how the city can emerge…
Read MoreGVSHP Oral History: Otis Kidwell Burger
…would be changed back into a single family house for a billionaire. Jane Jacobs helped save this neighborhood once from Zeckendorf. I’m not about to do it. So, does that…
Read MoreA Walk in the Park Leads to Our Village House Tour!
…Shirley Hayes, discovered these plans and she, along with early neighborhood activists and preservationists such as Jane Jacobs, vehemently opposed the plan and fought against it. Children Playing in the…
Read MoreOh How Our Houses Have Changed
…South Village. Many think of urban renewal in New York City as a phenomenon of the post-World War II era, a battle between government (Robert Moses) and advocates (Jane Jacobs)….
Read MoreVillage Independent Democrats Collection: 1955-1969
The Village Independent Democrats are a reform democratic club founded in 1956. In 2023, the club donated their archives to Village Preservation. This collection includes much of the club’s archives…
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: Celebrate, Explore, Preserve Women’s History
…of our neighborhoods of the last 25 years, from Jane Jacobs to Mimi Sheraton, Marlis Momber to Penny Arcade, and many more. Among our Women’s History Month programs: “Sass in…
Read MoreEdith Lyons’ Oral History: Protecting the “Jewel” of Greenwich Village
…Hall / Board of Estimate Meeting Like many, Lyons was infuriated by this proposal. One of her first moves was to contact Jane Jacobs, whom she knew through local civic…
Read MoreGreenwich Village’s Own Angela Lansbury
…during the 1930s and a crusader for Women’s rights and disarmament). Not-so-strange bedfellows: Lansbury’s neighbors over time at 55 Morton Street included outspoken activist Jane Jacobs and theatrical innovator Charles…
Read MoreMay 2024 Programs: Plaque for Saul Leiter, Greenwich Village in the 1830s and 1960s, and More
…figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically…
Read MoreNew Oral History: Author, Historian, Artist, and Activist Jonathan Ned Katz
…history in our neighborhoods, including Jane Jacobs, Penny Arcade, Wolf Kahn, Jonas Mekas, Marlis Momber, Edwin Fancher, Margot Gayle, David Amram, Matt Umanov, Merce Cunningham, Joan Davidson, Richard Meier, Ralph…
Read MoreBusiness of the Month: Katinka, 303 East 9th Street
…an apartment for$40 on the “other side of Tompkins Square Park”. Jane and Billy Jane first visited India in 1976, on a trip with a large company where she worked as…
Read MoreSpot the Shot: 229-231 East 12th Street
…were the children of Russian-born Yiddish performers Bessie and Joseph Jacobson. Hymie Jacobson at right with fellow performers in 1923. Source: Yiddish Theater Digital Archives Hymie Jacobson born in 1895…
Read MoreBusiness of the Month: Li-Lac Chocolates
…Greenwich Village, the East Village or NoHo: just click here to vote for your favorite. Want to help support small businesses? Share this post with friends. Li-Lac Chocolates, Jane Street…
Read MoreJoin Us To Explore, Celebrate, and Advocate to Preserve Women’s History in March
…We have exclusive conversations with more than two dozen of the most impactful women of our neighborhoods of the last 25 years, from Jane Jacobs to Mimi Sheraton, Marlis Momber…
Read MoreWho Were the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo?
…suffragist, writer, and founder of the highly influential Heterodoxy Club. Elizabeth Irwin — Progressive education reformer, founder of Little Red Schoolhouse. Jane Jacobs — Journalist, author, preservationist and activist, she…
Read MoreWho Were the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo?
…suffragist, writer, and founder of the highly influential Heterodoxy Club. Elizabeth Irwin — Progressive education reformer, founder of Little Red Schoolhouse. Jane Jacobs — Journalist, author, preservationist and activist, she…
Read MoreFinding the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo
…Howe — Leading suffragist, writer, and founder of the highly influential Heterodoxy Club. Elizabeth Irwin — Progressive education reformer, founder of Little Red Schoolhouse. Jane Jacobs — Journalist, author, preservationist…
Read MorePublic Characters: Brenda Coultas and Investigative Poetics on the Bowery
…faint odor of honky-tonk and barrelhouse that it has not deserved since roughly 1914?” The noted preservationist Jane Jacobs figures as an influence here as well. Jacob’s idea of a…
Read MoreLe Corbusier: Master of Modern Architecture born October 6, 1887
…da Vinci, such as the golden ratio and the Fibonacci series, which he used as the basis for his architectural proportions. Le Corbusier’s Unite d’Habitation in Marseilles Jane Jacobs was…
Read MoreKitty Genovese and the Village
…with a human scale and a deeply interwoven social fabric, for the sense of community and connectedness that these places provided. This was central to the argument made by Jane…
Read MoreHappy 9th Birthday to the Gansevoort Market Historic District
…In 1963, the pioneering urban activist Jane Jacobs urged that the then-under-consideration Greenwich Village Historic Landmark District be extended west to West Street, at the edge of the Hudson River….
Read MoreThe Awe Inspiring Interior of 62 East 4th Street
…Speaking of Jane Jacobs and walking tours don’t forget this Sunday is GVSHP’s Annual House Tour of seven unique homes and sites. If you haven’t already please make your reservations…
Read MoreBook Talk: It’s a Helluva Town: Joan K. Davidson, the J.M. Kaplan Fund, and the Fight for a Better New York
…For Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Jane Jacobs. She co-founded the Center For the Living City with Jane. Anthony C. Wood is a preservationist, author, teacher, historian, and grantmaker….
Read MoreMy Favorite Things: Women’s History Month Edition
…flowers. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney by Robert Henri Jane Jacobs Jane in action! Want more women’s history? Read our Executive Director Andrew Berman’s piece in 6sqft: Fifteen Trailblazing Women…
Read MoreJazz Fans and Luminaries Turn Out for Charles Mingus Plaque Unveiling
…our 22nd plaque unveiling. Our program has honored and marked the homes of local figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Alex Haley; Frank…
Read MoreA 79-year old book on Greenwich Village still a valuable resource
A 1965 paperback edition of Greenwich Village: 1920-1930 available in the GVSHP library. For those familiar with the history of Greenwich Village, the name of author Jane Jacobs is quite…
Read MoreAccomplishments
…our historic plaques marking the home of Jane Jacobs, released oral histories with Mimi Sheraton, Ralph Lee, and Rick Kelly, and added a new collection of photos from the 1940s…
Read MoreFew Republicans, And One Big Political Paradox, in the Village
…all, of the remainder of the district’s residents live in a section of West Village Houses, also originally an affordable housing complex which resulted from Jane Jacobs and other Villager’s…
Read MoreJonathan Ned Katz Oral History: LGBTQ Historian, Painter and Pioneer
…and writing his memoir, Coming of Age in Greenwich Village: A Painter, His Paintings, His Life. Explore all of our oral histories here, including Jane Jacobs, Penny Arcade, Wolf Kahn, Jonas Mekas, Marlis Momber, Edwin Fancher, Margot…
Read MoreHailing Local Small Business Heroes Who Helped Capture Subway Terror Suspect
We all know that local small businesses add immeasurably to our lives, and that Jane Jacob’s adage about “eyes on the street” making communities safer is a truism never to…
Read MoreThe Original World Trade Center, Memorialized in our Historic Image Archive
…some additional captures of the World Trade Center from our archive: Meredith Jacobson, West Side. Charles and West Street, 1986. World Trade Center in background. From the “Meredith Jacobson Marciano…
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…1969 Designation Report, published by the Landmarks Preservation Commission when they designated the Greenwich Village Historic District Site plan Existing Jane Street elevation Existing Jane Street elevation close-up Proposed Jane…
Read MoreThe American Seamen’s Friend Society Sailors’ Home and Institute
…550 West 20th Street. Jane Ballroom of the current Jane Hotel But rather than being sold as originally intended, the building soon became the Seamen’s Relief Center annex, where free…
Read MoreVILLAGE VOICES 2022
…Stevens, Corcoran Downtown, Glenn Schiller – Corcoran, Jane Forman – Sotheby’s International Real Estate, Lenox Health, Leslie Mason – Douglas Elliman, Little Prince, Matthew Coleman Real Estate, Monica Rittersporn –…
Read MoreBerenice Abbott’s Greenwich Village
…Cocteau, Coco Chanel, Eugène Atget, and the American foreign correspondent for The New Yorker, Janet Flanner. Berenice Abbott’s portrait of Jane Flanner Upon her return to New York in 1929, now…
Read MoreThings We’re Looking Forward To Doing Again, Part 3
…the beauty parlor. Thomas Beauty Salon, 231 East 14th Street between 2nd & 3rd Aves (now ‘Beauty Bar’), 1995. Photo by Meredith Jacobson Marciano. Paint a mural. Veselka, 144 2nd…
Read MoreMore is More: Greenwich Village Historic District Extension
…Greenwich Village Historic District, and only the second new historic district in Greenwich Village since 1969. As early as 1963, Jane Jacobs wrote to the chair of the New York…
Read MoreRoy Lichtenstein Plaque Unveiling
…is our 23nd plaque unveiling. Our program has honored and marked the homes of local figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus;…
Read MoreThe Linda Yowell Image Collection: Capturing the West Village’s Charm and Evolution Over the Decades
…and the Historic House Trust of New York City. This iconic stretch of Hudson Street features both the renowned White Horse Tavern (No. 567) and the former home of Jane…
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